The National Press Club on Tuesday voiced alarm over deteriorating press freedom conditions in Turkey, where authorities moved this week to detain a prominent opposition newspaper editor and at least a dozen other media figures.

Murat Sabuncu, the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Turkey's oldest secularist newspaper, and a number of other journalists and news executives were rounded up in police raids Monday morning, according to news reports.

National Press Club President Thomas Burr expressed concern Monday about reports that independent filmmakers have been arrested for documenting environmentalists’ protests of oil pipelines across four states.

Filmmakers Deia Schlosberg and Lindsey Goodwin-Grayzel and cameraman Carl Davis, who were documenting protests, were arrested and charged with felonies, including conspiracy and burglary, according to news reports.

National Press Club President Thomas Burr welcomed reports Wednesday that Donald Trump's campaign has ended its blacklist of certain news organizations, though Burr noted the ban should have never existed in the first place and its removal was long overdue.

For almost a year, the Republican presidential nominee's campaign has blocked journalists from several major news outlets from receiving credentials to cover Trump events. The affected outlets have included the Washington Post, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico and the Des Moines Register.

The National Press Club on Tuesday voiced alarm that the Turkish government was moving to arrest dozens of journalists following the recent attempted military coup.

Official Turkish news agencies report that detention warrants have been issued for 42 journalists, with five journalists already detained for questioning. A number of news outlets have also been shuttered in the days since the failed coup that sought to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The National Press Club is honoring two photographers, one of them American and the other Egyptian, with its annual Press Freedom Award, the Club announced Monday.

The winners of the 2016 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award are Tim Tai, a U.S. student photographer who stood up last fall to an angry crowd at the University of Missouri, and Mahmoud Abou Zeid, alias Shawkan, an Egyptian photographer who has been jailed since 2013.

National Press Club leaders expressed concern Monday about the reported arrest of a press freedom group’s representative in Turkey.

Reporters Without Borders, an independent advocate for journalists worldwide, reported Monday that a Turkish court had ordered pre-trial detention for Erol Onderoglu, the group’s representative in Turkey for the last two decades, as well as two colleagues. The men have been charged with “terrorist propaganda” for taking part in a campaign of solidarity with the Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem.